The Trump administration in the United States continues to execute the death penalty by the federal government, which resumed last year, and a new female death row prisoner was executed ahead of the change of government on the 20th of this month.
In the United States, there is a federal execution system separate from the state, and the Trump administration resumed the federal execution, which had been suspended since 2003, in July last year.
Lisa Montgomery, a 52-year-old convict on death row, was sentenced to death by lethal injection at a facility in Midwestern Indiana on the 13th. A 23-year-old woman, who was a month old, was sentenced to death by the federal district court in 2007 for strangling and murdering her fetus and kidnapping her.
Attorneys for the death row in Montgomery have called for a commutation to life imprisonment, alleging that they suffered from mental illness due to childhood abuse, but the federal Supreme Court said on the 12th that of nine judges Six conservative judges agreed and allowed executions.
According to the Associated Press and other sources, this is the eleventh federal execution of the death penalty under the Trump administration, and the execution on women since 1953.
President-elect Biden, who will take office on the 20th of this month, has shown his opposition to the death penalty, and the media has reported the execution just before the change of government.